Surrender

Surrender

And her walls came a tumblin' down

Tho she knew as they fell

That there was a reason.

But hell if she could find it  amidst

The Wreckage

In her favor was that she had lived a long time.

A long time enough to know that

getting hold of a perspective takes time.

A long time enough to know

that some things must simply be endured.

 Now that did not mean
that there weren't those
moments when she held onto her pain
and shook it  maniacally
like a coon dog shakes its prey.

With a trickle of trust in her gut

she made it through.

With that trickle of trust in her gut,

she was able to stay the pain

of her weeping heart.

That trickle of trust

grew larger and larger.

And one day she understood

That it was okay to let
 her identity

 go....


PCW

Woman in a Green Blouse

Ernst Kirchner

1913

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art.

Just for your enjoyment here are some of Kirchner's paintings. He was famous for his paintings of the street ladies of Berlin.